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we want to go back to nbc's katy tur live outside a wendy's. what a difference 30 minutes makes. >> reporter: about a hundred people are protesting at this wendy's and they tried to shut it down. there's security inside and pretty effective getting no one able to walk into this wendy's during the afternoon rush and the lunch rush, if you will. they were chanting a moment ago, we can't survive off $7.25 and that's the heart of the issue. they're saying that $7.25 and the minimum wage is not enough to live on. they're asking for $15 an hour and calling that an actual living wage. many of these workers you might think are teenagers, most are over women over the age of 28. they're capped at $35 an hour. fast food corporation say a raise in their wages like that, $15 an hour just isn't possible. it's not feasible. they say they won't be able to operate and that they'll have to pass down the hike on to the consumers, raising the price of food. there are no hard numbers on this, thomas, but there are estimates throughout that say a burger could go fro
we want to go back to nbc's katy tur live outside a wendy's. what a difference 30 minutes makes. >> reporter: about a hundred people are protesting at this wendy's and they tried to shut it down. there's security inside and pretty effective getting no one able to walk into this wendy's during the afternoon rush and the lunch rush, if you will. they were chanting a moment ago, we can't survive off $7.25 and that's the heart of the issue. they're saying that $7.25 and the minimum wage is...
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this is delicious katie. it's not bad for canned soup, right? pfft! [ laughs ] you nearly had us there. canned soup. [ male announcer ] they just might think it's homemade. try campbell's homestyle soup. >>> on the national mall right now, immigration rights advocates are rallying in an effort to move the needle on immigration reform in congress, and this event is the culmination of a hunger strike called fast for families that began 21 days ago in front of the capitol building and garnered 5,000 supporters at other events throughout the country. moo rea teresa kumar is at the rally where msnbc's reverend al sharpton, and others are slated to speak. looks like the weather is holding out, a beautiful day there in washington, d.c. m.t., we know that the president and the first lady along with the vice president have all come there and shown their support for these protesters. with five days left before congress leaves on its winter break, it's really highly unlikely that the house will take up the senate's immigration bill and we've got a handful of rep
this is delicious katie. it's not bad for canned soup, right? pfft! [ laughs ] you nearly had us there. canned soup. [ male announcer ] they just might think it's homemade. try campbell's homestyle soup. >>> on the national mall right now, immigration rights advocates are rallying in an effort to move the needle on immigration reform in congress, and this event is the culmination of a hunger strike called fast for families that began 21 days ago in front of the capitol building and...
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this is delicious katie. it's not bad for canned soup, right? pfft! [ laughs ] you nearly had us there. canned soup. [ male announcer ] they just might think it's homemade. try campbell's homestyle soup. ♪ doing it with a cold, just not going to happen. ♪ vicks dayquil powerful non-drowsy 6-symptom cold & flu relief. ♪ no matter what city you're playing tomorrow... [ coughs ] [ male announcer ] ...you can't let a cold keep you up tonight. ♪ vicks nyquil powerful nighttime 6-symptom cold & flu relief. ♪ before using her new bank of america credit card, which rewards her for responsibly managing her card balance. before receiving $25 toward her balance each quarter for making more than her minimum payment on time each month. tracey got the bankamericard better balance rewards credit card, which fits nicely with everything else in life she has to balance. that's the benefit of responsibility. apply online or visit a bank of america near you. >>> will have joe biden was in tokyo tuesday to show support for japan in the wake of the air zone. the
this is delicious katie. it's not bad for canned soup, right? pfft! [ laughs ] you nearly had us there. canned soup. [ male announcer ] they just might think it's homemade. try campbell's homestyle soup. ♪ doing it with a cold, just not going to happen. ♪ vicks dayquil powerful non-drowsy 6-symptom cold & flu relief. ♪ no matter what city you're playing tomorrow... [ coughs ] [ male announcer ] ...you can't let a cold keep you up tonight. ♪ vicks nyquil powerful nighttime 6-symptom...
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. >> nbc's katie toure is live in brooklyn where a protest is scheduled to begin in the next hour. what are you hearing? >> there is a lot of debate on this issue. on the one hand you have the fast food workers and a lot of support out here for them who say they need to be raised to $15. that $7.25 just isn't enough. you hear that woman say she works two jobs even though they're making $7.25 an hour. they're capped out at about 35 hours a week. they say $15 would be a living wage. on the other hand, corporations say $15 is just completely a non-starter. that it won't happen that if that raise happens or any sort of raise happens it will be passed down to the consumer in terms of higher prices for food. there are no hard numbers on this, but it's estimated that a burger would go from $3 to $3.50 and some labor economists say that's not a big deal, because ultimately you will be paying more for food, but not more for welfare services. a lot of these fast food workers are using social services. they use $7 billion in public assistance. if you're paying more for a burger, they're getti
. >> nbc's katie toure is live in brooklyn where a protest is scheduled to begin in the next hour. what are you hearing? >> there is a lot of debate on this issue. on the one hand you have the fast food workers and a lot of support out here for them who say they need to be raised to $15. that $7.25 just isn't enough. you hear that woman say she works two jobs even though they're making $7.25 an hour. they're capped out at about 35 hours a week. they say $15 would be a living wage....
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nbc's katy tur, thank you for that report. i want to now bring in an associate professor of economics at umass. he also penned "the new york times" op-ed "the minimum we can do." he says, while we can set a wage floor using policy, should we, or leave it to the market. thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> so i wanted to start, one of the things i thought was interesting in your op-ed is you talk about the fact we used to have a variety of mechanisms for setting the wage. it wasn't just up to employers. some of those mechanisms have gone away over time. explain that. >> yeah, for most of the post-world war ii era, wages in the u.s. were set using a combination of things like the minimum wage as well as collective bargaining, unions, who actually used to help set wages together with employers. that is not the case today. unions and the private sector have virtually disappeared in many parts of the country. that's what makes the fast food strike quite interesting. for the first timetime, really, have had peo
nbc's katy tur, thank you for that report. i want to now bring in an associate professor of economics at umass. he also penned "the new york times" op-ed "the minimum we can do." he says, while we can set a wage floor using policy, should we, or leave it to the market. thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> so i wanted to start, one of the things i thought was interesting in your op-ed is you talk about the fact we used to have a variety of...
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this is delicious katie. it's not bad for canned soup, right? pfft! [ laughs ] you nearly had us there. canned soup. [ male announcer ] they just might think it's homemade. try campbell's homestyle soup. if every u.s. home replaced one light bulb with a compact fluorescent bulb, the energy saved could light how many homes? 1 million? 2 million? 3 million? the answer is... 3 million homes. by 2030, investments in energy efficiency could help americans save $300 billion each year. take the energy quiz. energy lives here. president obama is planning on doing between now and christmas eve. starting today, and every day between now and christmas eve, the white house says president obama is going to be doing some public thing every day to highlight good things about health reform, and to get people to sign up for insurance. december 23rd is the next big enrollment deadline for obama care, so the white house is taking on a new effort to fight back against the law's extremely loud critics. you can find of feel the change in tone from the white house on this s
this is delicious katie. it's not bad for canned soup, right? pfft! [ laughs ] you nearly had us there. canned soup. [ male announcer ] they just might think it's homemade. try campbell's homestyle soup. if every u.s. home replaced one light bulb with a compact fluorescent bulb, the energy saved could light how many homes? 1 million? 2 million? 3 million? the answer is... 3 million homes. by 2030, investments in energy efficiency could help americans save $300 billion each year. take the energy...
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katy tur in brooklyn. >> reporter: many workers with fast-food jobs aren't teenagers, they are women over the age of 28. they say they can't support themselves or families off minimum wage. they say they have to work more than one job, oftentimes two or three, to support themselves. they are not getting fulltime work because most hours are capped at 35 hours a week. big protests, moderately effective in some areas, not other areas, shut down some businesses depending where you are. fast-food companies say you can't afford $15 an hour. it's nonrealistic, a nonstarter. any wage raise for workers will get passed down to consumer in the form of higher prices for food. >> joining me now cnbc's brian sullivan. brian, thank you for joining us. lets talk first of all about gdp numbers in the third quarter. 3.6 is a good number. when you look at numbers you're the expert. inventory growth made up more than half of it. that doesn't say much about the overall strength of the economy. >> no, i think you're the expert, andrea. a lot of people in the financial industry have not dug out that tidbit
katy tur in brooklyn. >> reporter: many workers with fast-food jobs aren't teenagers, they are women over the age of 28. they say they can't support themselves or families off minimum wage. they say they have to work more than one job, oftentimes two or three, to support themselves. they are not getting fulltime work because most hours are capped at 35 hours a week. big protests, moderately effective in some areas, not other areas, shut down some businesses depending where you are....
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katy kay and sam stein. a press conference in tallahassee today that may shake-up college football. >> yeah. winston the superstar freshman quarterback in florida state named the acc player of the year yesterday. they will announced findings of the investigation. a woman accused winston of rape. if the charges are brought about, he will not be able to play for the rest of the season and it will be interesting to see the rest of his career. >> the police were covering it up that she was intimidated. >> it doesn't say i'm good. anyway, let's go to some other news. >> football is possibly behaving bad. >> to men behaving badly. >> toronto's mayor may have offered suspected drug dealers $5,000 and a car to keep video of him smoking crack from becoming public. rob ford has said he wants to see that tape. >> the best excuse i heard you give for using that crack cocaine is you were in a drunken stupor. is that supposed to make someone feel better? >> no, but i want to see the video. i can't remember it. >> the info
katy kay and sam stein. a press conference in tallahassee today that may shake-up college football. >> yeah. winston the superstar freshman quarterback in florida state named the acc player of the year yesterday. they will announced findings of the investigation. a woman accused winston of rape. if the charges are brought about, he will not be able to play for the rest of the season and it will be interesting to see the rest of his career. >> the police were covering it up that she...
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this is delicious katie. it's not bad for canned soup, right? pfft! [ laughs ] you nearly had us there. canned soup. [ male announcer ] they just might think it's homemade. try campbell's homestyle soup. >>> the latest numbers show homelessness is growing in big cities like l.a. and new york and now an expose shows they're raking in millions off the backs of the homeless. once called terror lords by the tabloids they have converted their rundown tenements into major for-profit homeless shelters. these have cubicle-size rooms with living conditions described as not suitable for human beings, some with garbage piled high, rats everywhere. the going rate for one single room. new york city is paying $122 a night or $3600 a month. it's the topic of a disturbing article in this week's "new york" magazine. i'm joined by the writer and contributing editor, andrew rice. it's good to have you here. >> thank you. >> this family was already nope back in the '80s as slumlords and you write they created a homeless supply and profited from the shelter demand. how do
this is delicious katie. it's not bad for canned soup, right? pfft! [ laughs ] you nearly had us there. canned soup. [ male announcer ] they just might think it's homemade. try campbell's homestyle soup. >>> the latest numbers show homelessness is growing in big cities like l.a. and new york and now an expose shows they're raking in millions off the backs of the homeless. once called terror lords by the tabloids they have converted their rundown tenements into major for-profit homeless...
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this is delicious katie. it's not bad for canned soup, right? pfft! [ laughs ] you nearly had us there. canned soup. [ male announcer ] they just might think it's homemade. try campbell's homestyle soup. gives you a long-lasting fresh breath feeling. so you have the courage to jump in... go in for the hug... or make sparks fly. for a fresh breath feeling that lasts up to 5x longer, get scope outlast. >>> on the calendar it may not be officially winter, but don't tell that to folks in washington, d.c. look at the capitol and the white house. pretty as a picture as snow is falling. it's a little treacherous. icy conditions may be coming their way in washington. we know we're expecting them here in new york and north in boston, also in philadelphia. so pretty as a picture, but don't let it deceive you. we'll give you updates on weather at the bottom of the hour. >>> meantime, more on the life and legacy of nelson mandela. not long after he was released from prison, the anti-apartheid icon made a trip here to new york city. there, the man who would become
this is delicious katie. it's not bad for canned soup, right? pfft! [ laughs ] you nearly had us there. canned soup. [ male announcer ] they just might think it's homemade. try campbell's homestyle soup. gives you a long-lasting fresh breath feeling. so you have the courage to jump in... go in for the hug... or make sparks fly. for a fresh breath feeling that lasts up to 5x longer, get scope outlast. >>> on the calendar it may not be officially winter, but don't tell that to folks in...
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relations and in nashville, john meachem and in washington, washington anchor for bbc world news america, katy kay. we will go around the table, but first joining us now nbc news africa correspondent outside the home where mandela is believed to have died. set the scene for us. >> take a look. it is quite an incredible scene. when we got here late yesterday evening after we heard initial reports that nelson mandela might have passed away, it was somber news, but that didn't lot of long at all. overnight the crowd grew and turned into something of a party. why is a party? in every sense this is a celebration of nelson mandela's life. also a celebration of the lives that all south africans have been able to live because of the sacrifice that nelson mandela made. yes, people are sad and somber and there were a few people spotted crying, but people have gotten used to the fact that he was incredibly sick and he was taken to the hospital seriously ill with a lung infection and then he was critically ill and december he was discharged to go home because his home resembled an intensive care unit. peo
relations and in nashville, john meachem and in washington, washington anchor for bbc world news america, katy kay. we will go around the table, but first joining us now nbc news africa correspondent outside the home where mandela is believed to have died. set the scene for us. >> take a look. it is quite an incredible scene. when we got here late yesterday evening after we heard initial reports that nelson mandela might have passed away, it was somber news, but that didn't lot of long at...